Palak Paneer

Materials

  • Spinach
  • Paneer
  • Garlic
  • Tomato
  • Carrot
  • A bit of dal
  • onion

Preparing the green vegetable stuff

  • 1.5 muthi dal, wash and drown it in water
  • Cut up one tomato and two carrots, doesn’t have to be too precise, and put in cooker
  • wash spinach and put in cooker (we had to do this in a couple iterations)
  • add dal (with 1 cup water) and put in cooker (dal ideally should be before the last iteration of spinach)
  • put cooker on high gas immediately (don’t have to put the lid on)
  • wait until leaves are wilting a bit (just until you can close the lid of the pressure cooker)
  • after that, put lid on and keep in cooker until 7 minutes after the first whistle
    • Slow Gas after first whistle
  • wait for steam to manually release (after it stops sizzling and you can open the lid)

Preparing the rest

  • Half of half packet paneer, cut up into cubes
  • Peel garlic (7-9 cloves in winter), less in summer
  • Cut up garlic into small pieces
  • Cut up whole onion into small pieces

Grinding the spinach

  • put the contents of the pressure cooker into the grinder (or hand mixer, but we dont have that)
  • put in the grinder (has to be visual), till it becomes the consistency of the palak paneer

[at this point you can start grinding the spinach as well, see below]

  • Take big pan / skillet
  • 2 kadhchi olive oil
  • let it warm up (2 min)
  • put the garlic and let it sizzle for 30-40 seconds
  • put the onion (until the onions get light link and soft)
  • Add same spices as dal recipe 202006181031, except no haldi
  • Put in grinded spinach, put the gas on low so it doesn’t start bubbling out
  • Cook for 2-3 minutes on medium or slow flame

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Date
February 22, 2023